The Battle at Lake Changjin’s "Father’s Generation" and other heavy hits hit the National Day file!


Special feature of 1905 film network When the National Day movie hits in 2021, it is undoubtedly a matter of great concern to many viewers when they are looking forward to the holiday, whether they can make history, whether Zhu Yu’s previous glory can continue, whether he can achieve a counterattack full of youthful atmosphere, and how many parent-child movies will contribute a movie feast for everyone during the National Day holiday.



The National Day file brings movies back to hot search, in which the word "Hui" is the key word. Because of the repeated epidemic, the movie market has gradually slowed down since August. Both the cinema and the audience are waiting for one or even several explosive movies to stimulate the market and provide a reason to go to the cinema during the Golden Week leisure time. Then, is the movie on the National Day file expected to be searched on the screen? Which movies have the potential to be hot searched? Today’s Film Review invited Zhang Jinfeng, deputy editor-in-chief of China Film News, to look forward to the National Day file with you.



At the moment when the epidemic situation is repeated, whether the films of the National Day archives can be searched on the screen or not, and the topic before the return, will bring a movie-watching craze, which is of inspiring significance to China filmmakers. In this regard, Zhang Jinfeng believes: "I think it will, because the blockbuster itself has its own traffic and is a topic maker. The production cycle and publicity of The Battle at Lake Changjin and "My Father and I" have kept everyone’s appetite because of the repeated epidemic. These two films will create more hot searches while creating high box office, so that China films can return to the center of the audience. " Before the deadline, the total box office of movie screening and pre-sale in The Battle at Lake Changjin has exceeded 100 million.



Teacher Zhang Jinfeng once said: "The explosion may be late, but it will never be absent." Many films in this year’s National Day archives have the ability to board the hot search, and the possible hot search entries also highlight the selling points and characteristics of the films. For example, what hot search terms may appear in The Battle at Lake Changjin, which is highly anticipated? Zhang Jinfeng mentioned: "First of all, can The Battle at Lake Changjin surpass the box office and the total box office of participating movies become the highest among all actors. Other acting skills, as well as his sacrifice and dedication for the film, will also become a hot topic for everyone. Jason Wu and Jackson Yee play a pair of brothers, and their brotherly love may get a hot search. Finally, there is "urine point", because the film lasts for nearly three hours, and many viewers can’t last for three hours. Where is its "urine point" will also be a hot topic for the audience. "



As the third work of "Me and Me" series, "Me and My Father" has a directing tube, which I believe will give fans more freshness and is also one of the main forces to board the hot search topic. Zhang Jinfeng said: "Zhang Ziyi and Shen Teng will definitely become the key words of hot search. As the only director who participated in the whole series, the fragments he directed in the first two films have won the welcome of many audiences; In his directing part, Jason Wu is also a subject of military war that he is good at. By desperately performing Saburo, he shows a particularly masculine temperament, which will also become the focus of hot discussion. In The Battle at Lake Changjin, Jason Wu and Jackson Yee play a pair of brothers, and in My Father and I, Jason Wu plays the father. These three people will have a series. What is the relationship between Leo and Jackson Yee? I think it is very fun. Jackson Yee and Leo may wish to have a dialogue from a distance during the National Day. "



In addition to the above two heavyweight blockbusters, there is actually a youth-themed film in the National Day file, that is, "Five Boys Who Save the Water". In the case that The Battle at Lake Changjin and My Father and I may occupy the largest proportion of the National Day movies and box office, the space left for other movies is very small. Whether Five Boys Who Drove the Water can become a dark horse in the fierce National Day movie schedule and board the hot search by strength is also concerned by many people.



Zhang Jinfeng’s prospect: "As a theme of youth and sports, if the film can win the popularity of young mainstream audiences, then the film arrangement will definitely become the key word. Fans will form tap water for the film arrangement, become a hot search, and slowly seize the market space of those two blockbusters. I believe that "Five Boys Drowning in the Water" can achieve a counterattack of our market expectations in the National Day file, and some elements of this film are very in line with the National Day file. The soundtrack of the synchronized swimming team is "March of Steel Torrents" during the National Day military parade, which matches the atmosphere of the National Day. In fact, as long as it is a good film, the market and the audience will not live up to it. "



In addition to the above three films, there are many parent-child movies in the highly competitive National Day, which often have a fixed audience. Zhang Jinfeng said: "It was created in the 1990s, and Zheng Yuanjie himself is a writer with his own hot search body. When he expresses some opinions on Weibo, he always gets on the hot search. Then I think this time his film is released, he may often have something to say during the release, and this film will also be one of the strong contenders for hot search words."



The hot search terms predicted for the National Day films are actually the expectations of these films. At present, the epidemic is not completely over, so we can’t be blindly optimistic now, and filmmakers need to continue to overcome difficulties with everyone. China movies have experienced so many twists and turns since last year. The road is tortuous, but the future is bright. If we can do a good job in the film content, we will definitely be able to return to the high point that China movie market should have after the epidemic is over.


Today’s film reviewDirector observation


This year, the movie market is so deserted that everyone is particularly looking forward to the arrival of the National Day file. The National Day file is indeed an arduous task. I also hope that several films can live up to expectations, so that the hot search terms predicted in this program can come true and the movies will become the topic of everyone’s leisure time again. (Director of Ma Hongyu’s Today’s Film Review)


Accelerated reshuffle of entertainment industry in winter: the rise of video websites and the reconstruction of industrial value chain

  In the past, the entertainment industry has not had a good time. Whether it is film and television dramas, movies, games or even artists, the upstream and downstream of the industry have been more or less affected. Under the cold winter, the prospects of the entertainment industry are also confused. How to get out of the cold winter?

  Recently, at the Iqiyi World Conference, Iqiyi released a number of entertainment industry support plans, involving movies, film and television dramas, games, animation, online texts, artists’ brokers, etc., which seemed to set a fire in the cold winter of the entertainment industry. Even Hou Hongliang, president of Noon Sunshine Film, lamented: "Winter has passed and summer has arrived." If, as Hou Hongliang said, winter has passed and summer is ushered in with the help of video websites, then, under the cold winter of this round of entertainment industry, the video websites under the control of the BAT Big Three have undoubtedly become the biggest winners, and their dominance in the entertainment industry has further expanded. Many years ago, Bona Film President Yu Dong’s statement that "all film and television companies will work for BAT" is also becoming a reality.

  Entertainment industry accelerates reshuffle in winter.

  Wind data shows that during the four years from May 2015 to May 2019, the investment in the film and entertainment industry showed an obvious cliff-like downward trend, with two obvious lows in 2016 and this year. In 2015, the investment amount of the industry was 13.091 billion yuan, which was reduced to 6.452 billion yuan in the following year, which was more than half. Then it entered the fast lane of rising. In 2018, the investment amount reached 53.777 billion yuan, which will be more than half this year, and the investment amount is only 262 million yuan.

  Affected by the cold winter, in 2018, the number of repertoires publicized by filing in China continued to decline, with a total of 1,061 and 41,887 episodes, down by 9.7% and 10.3% respectively compared with 2017. And short videos began to flood people’s lives, and the fragmentation time was gradually filled, and the market space was further narrowed.

  The performance of film and television listed companies is also not optimistic. Even Huace Film and Television (300133.SZ), the leading film and television drama, earned 5.797 billion yuan last year, up 10.52% year-on-year, with a net profit of 211 million yuan, down 66.71% year-on-year, and deducted non-net profit of 121 million yuan, down 78.22% year-on-year. More than half of the film and television listed companies, such as Huayi Brothers (300027.SZ), Ciwen Media (002343.SZ), Huawei Culture (002502.SZ), Tang De Film and Television (300426.SZ) and Hualu Baina (300291.SZ), all suffered losses last year, among which the former "film brother". A large number of game listed companies released loss-making financial reports, among which, the "loss king" Tianshen Entertainment had a pre-loss amount of 7.8 billion yuan, of which 4.9 billion yuan was accrued for goodwill impairment.

  "Behind the decline of the film and television industry is the outbreak of some industry problems under the rapid development for many years, mainly focusing on the two elements of over-reliance on IP and stars. As a result, the value of stars and IP is rising, and video websites are constantly posting money. However, with the high pay of star artists corrected by all parties last year, IP has repeatedly failed, and the original industrial value chain model is no longer suitable, so it is necessary to build a new industrial value chain." Zhou Chen, an entertainment industry analyst, said.

  According to statistics, among the TV dramas with TOP45 broadcast volume of Tencent Video in 2018, TV dramas with non-big IP and non-traffic stars accounted for 62.22%; In TOP35′ s variety show, the proportion of non-big IP and non-traffic stars is as high as 54.17%. Wang Juan, editor-in-chief of Tencent Video, said that with the ebb tide of big stars and big IP, users will be more critical, and good works in the future will need to meet users’ psychological demands, be well-made and be innovative.

  Since last year, three major video websites, Youku, Iqiyi and Tencent Video, have jointly issued a document to boycott the high pay of stars. IP failure has also aggravated the cold winter of the film and television industry. Wang Xiaohui, chief content officer of iQiyi, said that the previous big IP model was shattered. Typical examples are Tian Sheng Chang Ge and Wu Dong Gan Kun, which are far below the expected results.

  The cold winter of the entertainment industry is mainly reflected in the upper reaches of the industrial chain, but video websites have not been affected too much. On the contrary, the influence of online channels is constantly expanding. According to the China TV Drama Industry Development Report 2019, 382 new dramas were broadcast in 2018, of which the number of webcasts is more than twice that of Shangxing dramas, accounting for over two-thirds, and the quality of online dramas is getting stronger and stronger.

  Hou Hongliang said: "The emergence of online video has subverted the traditional TV play mode and industrial model, and the online channel has natural advantages. Take online drama as an example, online drama should be consistent with its communication form, viewing scene, revenue model and user’s demands, instead of simply premiering on the online platform. In traditional TV dramas, every creation must strive for the largest number of viewers, so that it is possible to obtain better viewing data from a small number of sample households. The choice of paying users of online dramas is very clear. It is very important to study the demands of target audiences and accurately locate works. Therefore, the direction of online drama creation must be market segmentation, typology of themes, and whose strategy and content are more accurate. "

  The rise of video websites to build a new world of entertainment

  From the initial second-round broadcast platform of movies and TV series, to the linkage between Internet and TV stations, and then to the solo broadcast of self-made TV dramas, the voice of video websites is constantly improving, and video websites have also paid a lot of financial costs. In this case, video websites need to strengthen the control of upstream and downstream to better control costs and expand profit models.

  Wang Xiaohui said: "The copyright of new media has dropped from 18 million to 8 million now, and most of them are at 3 million." On the other hand, build your own IP, stars and related TV dramas. Last year, Gong Yu, the founder and CEO of Aiqiyi, put forward the vision of "Apple Orchard", that is, to expand the content ecology of Aiqiyi from video to pan-entertainment fields such as literature, animation, live broadcast, games, e-commerce, ticketing and artist brokerage.

  At the Iqiyi World Conference, iQiyi systematically displayed 21 application service product brand matrices including iQiyi main station, Chibabu, iQiyi bubble, iQiyi sports and iQiyi VR for the first time. At the same time, the two innovative directions of iQiyi original film plan and interactive content technical standards were officially released, aiming at providing solutions to the problems currently faced by the partners in cinema films and multi-content fields through business model innovation and technology and content combination innovation.

  The increasing dominance of video websites means that video websites will continue to strengthen content control, and a number of external entertainment companies will also be embedded in the industrial chain of video websites to strengthen cooperation.

  Then, when there are problems with stars and IP, can video websites lead content creation to reduce industry risks and build a healthier industry ecology? In Gong Yu’s view, video websites have three magic weapons: one fish eats more, original content and technical support. Content originality is the basis for video websites to integrate internal and external resources to create high-quality content, while technical capability support is to continuously reduce the risk of film and television investment and improve the ability to create explosions through artificial intelligence, big data and even the latest film and television technology such as interactive video technology. The mode of eating more than one fish is to help maximize the value of entertainment content, and only a few major video websites can achieve these three points at present.

  After the cold winter is a new round of rapid development of the entertainment industry, and the dominant players will become video website giants.

  In the face of the cold winter, Wang Xiaohui believes that the superposition effect of the emerging generation with different consumption views and wealth after the 1980 s and the Internet users after the 1990 s has brought stronger impetus to the entertainment industry. "Users have a stronger demand for high-quality content and a stronger demand for high-quality content that is suitable for their own personalized content. After 80, you can pay for the game, and after 90, you can pay for The Avengers. The locomotive of this industry is the Internet, which has revolutionized all industries, including our entertainment industry. In the current era, the trend of the entertainment industry and our update cycle and frequency of fresh content are getting shorter and faster. " Wang Xiaohui said.

  A large part of the growth of the entertainment industry is the growth of the content payment market, which is a big plus for video websites. In 2018, the number of subscriptions of global streaming media surpassed that of cable TV, and the number of online video members in China surpassed that of cable TV. In 2018, the iconic paid income of iQiyi became the largest source of income.

  No matter who dominates, it is basically centered on the audience. Hou Hongliang said: "In the process of constantly exploring the mode, type and differentiation of entertainment content, the most correct thing to do is not to despise the audience, not to give up the creative subject, not to lower the production level and awe of creation, and to constantly present it with more professional images and expressions."